Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Apprentice
Westminster City Council
London (SW1E 6QP)
Closes in 9 days (Sunday 15 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 January 2026
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Summary
Kick‑start your career with a CSR apprenticeship!
This Level 4 apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience supporting the council’s ambitious climate and energy goals while developing core skills in sustainability, data analysis, and project delivery.
- Wage
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£28,260 a year
- Training course
- Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Typically 9:00am-17:00pm, Monday to Friday. While hybrid working is available, we encourage apprentices to spend plenty of time working in person. Your schedule will be structured and supportive.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 25 March 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As an apprentice, you will learn about and contribute to a wide range of programmes that help reduce carbon emissions across the council’s Corporate Property portfolio. This includes:
- Supporting the Corporate Property Carbon Management Programme; delivering decarbonisation and sustainability works to schools and community buildings.
- Contributing to the delivery of the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) project; supporting Energy Performance Assessments of the Corporate Property portfolio and interpreting energy efficiency improvement reports.
- You will help in the application for and delivery of grant-funded initiatives aimed at driving carbon reduction and energy improvements in Corporate Property buildings.
- Help create simple and engaging communication materials to promote our service’s work. This could include drafting messages, updates, or visuals that explain our projects to people inside the council and to external partners, helping everyone understand what we’re doing and why it matters.
- Assisting with energy and utility payments; paying invoices, updating records and consumption monitoring relating to gas, electric and water
- A big part of this role is working with data. You’ll help collect, organise, and understand information about council buildings.
Where you'll work
Westminster City Hall
64 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6QP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BLUE SKY ASSESSING & CONSULTANCY LTD
Training course
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
Training schedule
The apprentice will work across the directorate, supporting different teams while actively applying the skills they learn through the apprenticeship standard. As part of the programme, 20% of their working hours will be dedicated to off‑the‑job learning, ensuring they have protected time to study, develop and build confidence. We will make sure the successful candidate experiences all key areas of the apprenticeship, giving them the opportunity to practise their new skills in real situations and gain meaningful, hands‑on experience across the service.
More training information
Blue Sky Assessing and Consultancy are running the recruitment for this apprenticeship, however LDN Apprenticeships will be the training provider and they offer a supportive and engaging route into work, combining practical on‑the‑job experience with structured training that helps you build real skills and confidence. Their programmes are designed to set you up for success, giving you the chance to learn from industry professionals while taking meaningful steps towards a long‑term career.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
A Level in:
BTEC in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Right to Work.
About this employer
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
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Company benefits
• Pension
• Active Westminster
• Car benefit scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Buying additional annual leave
• Birthday Leave
• Paid volunteering hours
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Potentially full-time employment.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BLUE SKY ASSESSING & CONSULTANCY LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000011375.
Apply now
Closes in 9 days (Sunday 15 February 2026 at 11:59pm)